The site of Thermopylae has enormous historical weight. The heroic resistance of the Spartan king Leonidas of his 300 and 700 Thespians remains a monument to the century. However, the strategic passage became a battlefield several times both before and after the sacrifice of Leonidas, until 1941.
In the year 414 Ataúlfo withdraws from Gaul, due to the harassment of the magister militum Constantius, and crosses the Pyrenees. It is the first incursion of the Visigoths in Hispania. After fighting against the Vandals, Sueves, Alans and even Byzantines, they subdue the natives, Hispano-Romans, an
To the figure of Alfonso X His fame as a cultured king has always been linked. Everyone knows that he not only promoted science and culture during his reign, but also actively participated in them as a troubadour and writer. Less known is by the common mortals that he kept numerous open fronts with
He who loses his riches loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courage loses everything. These words of the universal Miguel de Cervantes they should not have reached the ears of the Frenchman Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve or at least they did not make a dent in it